If there was one lesson I learnt from this show is ban all children from your gallery. Especially when the work being shown is breakable and sitting on unsecured podiums. Although tragic, I was mildly amused to see R22 000 worth of sculpture being swept up.

But clumsy was one word that could be used to describe the show. The content was often quite interesting, about the collision of cultures, with a pop art overtone. So we saw springboks made out of beads from Martine Jackson, sculptures of old toys with African textile patterns painted on them from Shirley Fintz, and, um, pots with spots from Barbara Jackson. But the works really didn't pull it off, because of a clumsy handling of material. I would have liked work that has a pop art feel to be a bit more mechanical and hard-edged, or at least to respect the media a bit more (like should beads really be superglued on?)

One thing to say though is that the three artists went together fantastically, the show made sense as a whole. Just more bite please.